Bug#728375: libjetty8-java-doc: Questionable dependencies

[Mauro Molinari]

Il 06/10/2014 12:09, Emmanuel Bourg ha scritto:
> libjetty8-java-doc already recommends default-jdk-doc, maybe you meant 
> "suggested" instead? 

I may have used the wrong terms here, sorry. What I find questionable is 
that, as I said in my original report, if I try to install 
libjetty8-java-doc, APT by default says it will install other Javadoc 
packages as well, for a total of almost 300MB of data... I don't think 
these dependency Javadoc packages are actually needed for me to read the 
Jetty 8 documentation. They might be "useful" in some cases, but nothing 
more.

I just learnt I can use --no-install-recommends apt-get parameter (I 
expect aptitude to have something similar) to filter out recommended 
packages, but that's not what I would expect by default.

This is just my opinion. Thanks for your feedback!
Mauro